FRHD 2280 Lecture 13: lecture 13

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2280
• Professor: Henry Thille

Document Summary

To understand family functioning one must understand how each relationship within the family in uences the family as a whole. The family system is composed of a variety of subsystems. Keep in mind the subsystems in a family consisting of two parents and an adolescent would be: mother and adolescent father and adolescent mother and father. Two key ideas: each subsystem in uences every other subsystem in the family, a change in any family member or family subsystem results in a period of disequilibrium (e. g. imbalance) until the family system adjusts to the change. For most parents, their children"s development during adolescence and emerging adulthood overlaps with their own development during midlife. Why is this the case? median age of marriage and rst childbirth in industrialized societies is quite high (e. g. , late 20s or early 30s) If adolescence begins about age 10, this means that most parents are nearly age 40 when their rst child enters adolescence.